Affiliation
Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMF. Performed the experiments: JMF. Analyzed the data: JMF. Wrote the paper: JMF. Helped conceive the study, carried out the DNA microarray hybridization experiments and data analysis as well as helped draft the manuscript: JMF. Performed the real time PCR experiments: AVP. Wrote the scripts to link the 50-mer oligonucleotides to the Gbrowse window of SchistoGeneDB: AJM. Performed the bioinformatics analysis of the schistosome sequences used for oligonucleotide design and helped in downstream bioinformatics analyses of differentially transcribed sequences: DAJ. Designed the oligonucleotides from the assembled sequences: GAW Helped conceive the study, participated in the design and coordination, analyzed the data and helped to draft the manuscript: KFH.